Glee – Mash Off

Things heat up on the latest episode of Glee as Puck (Mark Salling) proclaims his love to Shelby (Idina Menzel), Finn (Cory Monteith) and Santana (Naya Rivera) begin a war of insults that will end with one of them in tears, and things turn negative in both the school and state elections.

Instead of making us wait for a the first number, things get started right off the bat with Puck’s dream sequence of Van Halen‘s “Hot for Teacher” which turns into a performance for the glee club. Musically it’s by far the best number the show has put out, but it fits very well thematically with where the Puck/Shelby relationship seems to be headed.

On the election front, Sue (Jane Lynch) goes negative in her campaign with a ridiculous ad campaign about Burt Hummel’s (Mike O’Malley) “baboon heart” that leaves several Ohio voters actually believing Kurt’s (Chris Colfer) father is living with a monkey’s organ. Things heat up in the school elections as well as one of the candidates refuses to go negative and another decides to drop out of the race and support a friend.

Aside from providing some of this season’s most fun musical numbers, “Mash Off” a strong episode that will have serious repercussions for Santana, as as spending the time to mend fences between Rachel (Lea Michele) and Kurt and give politicians a moral lesson that negative campaigning will always come back to bite you in the ass.